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HADID (which see) and NEBALLAT (which see), and therefore in the maritime plain near Lydda; the site is lost (Ne 11:34).
Where is Zeboim in the Bible?
Zeboim was a town in ancient Judah located in the maritime plain near Lydda, in the region between Hadid and Neballat, though its exact site has been lost to history. The town is mentioned in the book of Nehemiah as one of the settlements resettled by the Jewish people after they returned from Babylonian exile around the fifth century BCE. Additionally, the Bible references the Valley of Zeboim, meaning "the valley of hyenas," as a geographical landmark in the same region where Philistine forces passed during their movements in the days of King Saul. This valley appears in 1 Samuel 13:18 as part of the military geography of ancient Israel during conflicts with the Philistines.
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Zeboim
ISBE 1915 (Public Domain)HADID (which see) and NEBALLAT (which see), and therefore in the maritime plain near Lydda; the site is lost (Ne 11:34).
(2) The Valley of Zeboim, "the valley of hyenas," one of three companies of the Philistines left their camp at Michmash and "turned the way of the border that looketh down upon the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness" (1Sa 13:18). There are several valleys with names derived from the hyena, so common in these parts. There is a small branch valley called Shakked dab`a, "ravine of the hyenas," North of the Wady kelt (Grove), a, Wady abu dab`a, "valley of the father of hyenas, which joins the Wady kelt from the South (Marti), and a large and well-known Wady dab`a, "valley of hyenas," which runs parallel with the Wady kelt, some 3 miles farther South, and ends at the Dead Sea. The first of these, which apparently leads to Mukhmas itself, seems the most probable. See Conder's Handbook, 241.
E. W. G. Masterman
ze-bu'-da.
See ZEBIDAH.
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